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Etiology And Stability Of Problem Gambling, Robert Williams, Rachel A. Volberg

International Conference on Gambling & Risk Taking

Prevention of problem gambling hinges on having research that clearly identifies the variables that are etiologically involved, their temporal sequence, and their causal connections. Longitudinal research is the best way of disentangling the chronology and causal relationships between variables. The present research describes the results of the two major longitudinal studies of gambling in Canada: the Quinte Longitudinal Study (QLS) (n = 4,121) and the Leisure, Lifestyle, Lifecycle Project (LLLP) (n = 1,808). The first part of the presentation describes the stability of gambling classifications over a 5 year period. This is followed by an identification of the univariate and …

Early Initiation Into Gambling Among Boys And Girls With Conduct Problems: A Prospective Study, Renee A. St-Pierre Ph.D., Véronique Frenette, Caroline E. Temcheff Ph.D., Michèle Déry Ph.D., Jean-Pascal Lemelin Ph.D., Jean Toupin Ph.D., Pierrette Verlaan Ph.D.

International Conference on Gambling & Risk Taking

Context. Both early initiation into gambling (Rahman et al., 2012; Slutske et al., 2014) and conduct problems (Welte et al., 2009, 2011) have been identified as independent risk factors for later gambling problems. However, few longitudinal studies have examined the associations between these two risk factors, as well as their predictive relationship with gambling initiation among children and adolescents. Research Question. Are conduct problems a risk factor for early initiation into gambling, over and above other known risk factors?

Method. This study used data from an ongoing prospective, longitudinal study at the Université de Sherbrooke in order to examine gambling …